Found an American made item

Just bought (yesterday) two new pairs of New Balance sneakers. Made in USA

I've noticed it's not too hard to get made in USA footwear. I've not had luck finding jeans from here though. Over the past 13 or so years carharrt jeans went from made in USA to assembled in mexico with "components" from the the US to just made in mexico.

There's no question the older jeans held up better, but the current ones are still acceptable. The stitches are still OK, just the fabric isn't the way is used to be. I dug some out of the rags pile to actually compare.

most of my shoes are new balance (not the chinese ones) boots are Carolina or Matterhorn Cocoran has some nice shoes too.

I bought a couple of "Made in USA" plastic buckets from WalMart a couple of weeks ago. Neither one lasted a week. Both split their bottoms.

Hmmm. An injected-molded plastic holster for a sophisticated piece of electronic hardware made somewhere else, and plastic buckets that split...

Are we trying to recapture the bottom end of manufacturing? What's next, clothes pins?

Have you noticed what a large portion of our manufacturing economy is represented by AR15 variants and accessories? A lot of small US companies producing stuff in the US.

Actually, I haven't noticed that, no. I don't usually read those articles in _American Rifleman_. Let's see, the AR-15, which was the original designation for the proto-M-16, was developed in...was it 1958? Armalite sold it in 1959, so it must have been around for at least a little while before that.

Yup, we're right on top of things.

Yes, I've read the M2 reports for around 35 years. It's true that there's a lot more manufacturing going on in the US than many people realize. Aside from cars, though, we lost the volume of business in most consumer products.

I doubt that small arms manuufacturing and sales amounts to even a small fraction of a percentage of the US GDP

I think most people today care more about employment than GDP.

Isn't USA a town in Japan?

Most items are manufactured elsewhere, like the US cars, and then assembled in the USA to fool the USanians into thinking they made it.

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Just got my new cell phone holster. Made in USA. Pennslyyvania even. Very nice spring steel clip, you can flex the heck out of this thing and it snaps right back.

One to fit my phone is rather old, I found it on ebay for 8 bucks. Kind of wish it had a magnetic closure instead of velcro, but this velcro seems nice, we'll see how long it lasts.

Randy, from Allentown PA.

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It's all crap anyway. The garment industry in Taiwan leaves one stitch not completed in the clothing item and sends it over so it can say "Made in USA". The little old woman that puts the last "American" stitch in has a Pakistani citizenship, anyway.

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I think most people today care more about employment than GDP.

rangerssuck wrote: (...)

YAY! Great sneakers, no 'shoe store hassles'!

--Winston

I dunno, Ed. We have already have won that race...

Okay, then I'll word it differently.....

I doubt that small arms manuufacturing and sales amounts to even a small fraction of a percentage of the total US employment.

That's because many or maybe most of the military small arms weapons used in the USA are manufactured in Kitchener, Ontario,Canada by West Heights Manufacturing and divisions of the same company, under different names.

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Okay, then I'll word it differently.....

I doubt that small arms manuufacturing and sales amounts to even a small fraction of a percentage of the total US employment.

The ***TAG*** was made in the USA, not the sneakers, unless you paid over $250 for them.....LOL

rangerssuck wrote: (...)

I've been hooked on the Reebok Classic Nylon sneakers for a couple decades now. I buy 2 pair every 4 years or so. My arches love them, and I can tie them so they work like slipons. The cushy inch of foam under the feet is heavenly. They're lightweight so they walk well for miles, but they're sturdy enough to hike in. Padded collar, breathable suede and ballistic nylon uppers, $20-$40 a pair.

-- You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. --Jack London

Yeahbut at least *one* of my four pairs of NB shoes was made in the USA! ;)

"Domestic Manufacturing ....And we're proud to say that 25% of our shoes sold in North America are made or assembled right here."

No you're not.

:)

--Winston

Yeah, you and your checkbook! Bill

I was talking to an old gent, who had worked in manufacturing all his life, back in Wichita around 1982 and he said that the US made some of the best stuff in the world but went on to add that the US was just as capable of making s*it as the next guy. Likely that still hold true.